kindliness Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun friendliness evidence by a kindly and helpful disposition
    helpfulness.

WordNet

Kind"li*ness noun
Definitions
  1. Natural inclination; natural course. Obs. Milton.
  2. The quality or state of being kindly; benignity; benevolence; gentleness; tenderness; as, kindliness of disposition, of treatment, or of words.
    In kind a father, but not in kindliness. Sackville.
  3. Softness; mildness; propitiousness; as, kindliness of weather, or of a season.
    Fruits and corn are much advanced by temper of the air and kindliness of seasons. Whitlock.

Webster 1913